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What your job is. Thank you, my job is assistant director for a culture at the Smithsonian National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, historians, curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, the books, a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography, we also have over 500,000 photographs in the National Museums of american Archive Center. So i have been working very hard, i in the year ive been at the museum. Ive a 30 year career at the smithsonian, but i only joined this museum last year. And these photographs of the archives. The. It has become more and mor ....
You are watching American History tv come all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In its early years, colorado was inhabited by an eclectic group of people, from law men to ranchers to those looking to strike it rich gold mines. In her book, the bad old days of colorado, randi samuelsonbrown examines the beginning of colorados history and the characters that helped shape this state. Thank you so much for joining us tonight and continuing to get our program via video since the museum is still mostly closed to the public. For those of you who dont know me, my name is megan and im the Visitors Services and interpretation coordinator at Golden Museum and park. I plan the Adult Program and other functions of the museum. Randi hascited that joined us. Let me throw a curv ....
The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. c ....
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 24 ....